STUMP CITY PLYMOUTH - a visual record of decline
Between 2009 and 2024, Plymouth lost at least 0 urban trees.
Thousands of street and park trees have disappeared across Plymouth over the last decades. In other cities, when urban trees die, they are replaced. Not in Plymouth.
We invite you to witness the loss...
In most cases, there is no evidence that these trees were ever there, but using Google Street View imagery and before and after photos, this project documents trees removed from public land and from the estates of some major organisations between 2009 and 2024. The results capture only a fraction of the full picture — countless other trees have vanished from private land and gardens, from land which is out of sight or not recorded by Google, and thousands more will have been lost before 2009 - leaving whole streets bare, lifeless and without shade.
Find out more about the project.